Michael Hoffman wrote: > Colin J. Williams wrote: > > > C:\XXX is required, C:XXX is not acceptable. > > C:XXX is acceptable, it just means something entirely different from > C:\XXX. There is a current working directory on each drive. C:XXX is > file XXX in the current directory on drive C:.
Further notes for Colin: On *x, /xxx is the xxx file in the root directory and xxx is the xxx file in the current directory. Same perceived problem. This is not a new feature in Windows XP; it has been as Michael described ever since directories were introduced in MS-DOS 2.0. And of course it applies to all file paths, irrespective of whether you want to execute / read /write / etc. As a matter of interest, do you normally run python with "site-packages" as the current directory? Most folk would not do that, with any software package, preferring the installed software to be just that, and not "polluted" with their own data etc which should be kept elsewhere in appropriately named and structured directories. HTH, John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
